Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most disturbing aspect of the election is that 43% of the voters slaphappily approved of the Democratic leadership of the past eight years, under which: Cuba has become a Communist arsenal (Bay of Pigs); the U.S. is deep in a 500,000-man shooting war 8,000 miles from home; attorney generals have not stuck to their basic jobs; the Supreme Court has become a manufacturer instead of an interpreter of the law; crime has tripled; strikes and riots are the rule, not the exception; the city of Washington is a thug-infested jungle; and a letter costs twice...
...principle whatever," one who has "done lasting damage to the conventions of American political life." Freeman now argues differently, saying that Nixon "has proved by his success, and the quite admirable struggle which he has made to achieve it, that he has the qualities of leadership that make him worthy of high office...
...Businessmen. The Alliance was called together by President Johnson early this year for the express purpose of finding 100,000 jobs for the hard-core unemployed by the end of June 1969, and 400,000 more by 1971, as well as summer jobs for youth. Under the titular leadership of Henry Ford II and the hard-driving personal direction of a Ford vice president...
...based his career on being Moscow's company man, Gomulka rates especially warm treatment from the Kremlin during times of Communist stress-and the Soviets have never needed him more. As a result, Czechoslovakia has enabled Gomulka to overcome- for the present-the most serious challenge to his leadership in his twelve years as party boss. Last week, in a droning five-hour speech at the meeting that once loomed as a trial of strength for his job, Poland's No. 1 Communist felt secure enough to dispense advice to comrades throughout Europe...
...symbol of Mao and his revolution, in turn, link the masses to Chinese culture and history. With ancestor worship and family under attack from the communist leadership, the revolution is a substitute for the biological line. This explains the deification of Mao, and even more than Mao, Mao's Thought. Mao's Thought must be the sole (thus unchallenged) basis for the order which survives him. The hysterical attack on all tradition is an attempt to clear the field for the rise of a new cleansed Maoist order, and youth is the bearer of the new tradition because it symbolizes...